H.P.'s Misstep Shows the Risk in Big Ideas — When Hewlett-Packard spent roughly $10 billion on the software company Autonomy, it thought it was buying a slice of the future — investing in the hot trend of big data. But the deal turned out to be a debacle, and not only because H.P. wrote down $5 billion of the purchase.

Lotus: Farewell to a Once-Great Tech Brand — Wolfgang Gruener of Tom's Hardware alerted me to a bit of news that, while minor, has left me in a wistful mood. IBM is planning to remove the Lotus branding from its Notes and Domino workgroup products. It's the apparent end of Lotus …

Kickstarter sued over 3D Systems' printer patent — Formlabs's printer was developed by researchers working at Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Crowd-funding website Kickstarter is being sued for its promotion of a new 3D printer. — More than 2,000 users contributed over $2.9m …

Apple's “iMessage” is now a Registered Trademark — Apple's iMessage was first introduced by Scott Forstall at their World Wide Developer Conference in June 2011. Then in February 2012, Apple announced that iMessage was going to replace iChat in OS X Mountain Lion.

A Peek at TV's Future, Via Google Fiber — The Google Fiber experiment/maybe-not-an-experiment in Kansas City is important because it shows Google's ability to compete directly with broadband providers for control of the Internet pipe itself. — If Google doesn't need to rely on the Comcasts …

Umano wants to tell you the news, literally — As a Bay Area resident, I think I can speak for most when I say: BART is awful. The Bay Area Rapid Transit pales in comparison to other metropolis' public transportation trains. It's overly crowded at rush hour, makes a grand total of eight stops …

B&N NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ arrive in UK — Barnes & Noble's NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ tablets have gone on sale in the UK, taking on the iPad and iPad mini with competitive price tags. The two Android-based slates use B&N's latest customized version of the open-source OS, replacing the standard interface …

For some companies, confusion in app-land equals money — When News.me, a New York-based company, acquired some assets of the earliest social news sharing service Digg and refocused on Digg, its chances to make it were seen as a long shot. And while that dark prognosis hasn't changed …

Australian tax crackdown to target Google, other multinationals — (Reuters) - Australia released draft revisions to tax laws on Thursday, which it said were designed to stop big firms, including the local arm of Google, from shifting their income to countries such as Holland or Ireland where the tax rates are lower.

Feds aim to kill .Army, other military domains — Demand Media wants to run three military domain extensions that — big surprise — Uncle Sam isn't too happy about. — Here's a cyberfight it seems anyone could have seen coming. — Among the hundreds of new generic top-level domains under consideration …